with his hat on.  "But why the deuce, then, would she never marry?" 

"Yes--why indeed?" sighed Mrs.  Penniman.  And then, as if from a
sense of the inadequacy of this explanation, "But you will not
despair--you will come back?" 

"Come back? Damnation!" And Morris Townsend strode out of the
house, leaving Mrs.  Penniman staring. 

Catherine, meanwhile, in the parlour, picking up her morsel of fancy
work, had seated herself with it again--for life, as it were. 

End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Washington Square, by Henry James